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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Enterprise, when it wasn't actively sexually harrassing T'pol, was great.

The problem is, the episodes where B&B are using Jolene Blalock as a sounding board for their fetishes are so bad, that it drags down the series as a whole.

[-] MajorasMaskForever@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

They were doing the breast they can 😒

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

when it wasn't actively sexually harrassing T'pol

I never understood that need. T’pol was already fiercely exotic, what with her flawless face and remote Vulcan disdain. They could have put her into a spacesuit for the entire series and she would have still been attractive AF purely due to her personality and strength of character. About the only improvement I would have liked to see is more of her character arc being in conflict with her Vulcan upbringing, particularly in trying to deal with those infuriatingly irrational humans, and her emotional entanglement with Trip.

[-] Scirocco@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I'm not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.

It's easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.

[-] Manabi@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

The scenes in the isolation chamber in underwear applying gel to each other were totally unnecessary and unpleasant to watch, especially nowadays. They have aged very poorly.

[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

They were the reason I stopped watching when it first aired. I’m glad society is catching on.

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[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

After watching it completely through within the last few years, I can say I rank it higher than Voyager.

Id rank the last two seasons of ENT higher than Voyager

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

getting from here to there

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] Mzpip@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

LOL! But whether or not you like the theme song, I maintain that the visuals of the opening credits are the most imaginative of all the treks.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 year ago

If not the most imaginative, certainly the most inspiring, and it evokes a strong insertion in our reality.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My grandpa was a reactor monkey on the CVN Enterprise and the primary reason I’m such a huge sci-fi nerd, every time I see Big E in the intro it makes me think of him and hopeful we’ll see NCC-1701 someday.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 6 points 1 year ago

The song is heavily meh, but the visuals may as well be the best of any intro.

If they composed something more trek-y, it would be the best intro of them all!

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 year ago

Enterprise was great when it was allowed to be the prequel it was meant to be. The actors were great. Set and prop design was on point. There were interesting ideas to explore during that time like the Vulcan-Andorian Cold War and the increasing destabilization cause by Romulus.

Cut the Temporal Cold War and the Xindi and Enterprise could have gone on for seven seasons and we might have seen the Earth-Romulus War.

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 points 1 year ago

1000%, and cut things like transporters and replicators like the writers had originally envisioned.

Make it more astronaut-y.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think they had replicators. They were invented ~50 years after Enterprise.

[-] Manabi@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

I actually liked the Temporal Cold War stuff and the Xindi arc, but that fourth season was so damn good. I wish we'd gotten at least a couple more seasons like that.

[-] btaf45@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

but that fourth season was so damn good.

It was the best seaon of any Trek ever IMO.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I very much enjoyed enterprise at the time, despite the horrible theme song and the flaws in writing that spotted most episodes.

Now, part of that is being a huge Bakula fan. I love the way he throws himself into roles. I think though, had there been another age actor in the role I still would have enjoyed the show.

It wasn't great Trek. Probably the weakest of the older series, depending on tastes and criteria. Certainly wasn't up to TNG, TOS, or DS 9. I'd put it on par with Voyager, though it was both bad and good in different ways, with the lack of attention being paid to established Vulcan history in Enterprise tipping the scales to it being lesser than Voyager.

But I really liked that they tried to go back to the whole "wagon train in space" vibe. And the cast was great. Can't hold the iffy writing against the cast, and there were some great moments where the actors kept things from being worse just by virtue of how they carried their characters.

I don't rewatch any of the series as a binge though, so my opinion might change when the flaws are showing up in rapid succession compared to the original pace of watching week by week and over time. I know binge watching made me almost hate shows I used to like a good bit (like Bones as an example).

I can't compare anything to the newer shows since I've kinda stopped watching much in the way of "tv" the last few years, so I haven't caught any of the stuff that has been done in the last decade. Could be that one of the new shows would be worse, in comparison to the earlier shows, I dunno. Doesn't help that I despise the reboot movies, and the fact e that they happened kinda soured me on new Trek overall. The folks running things don't seem to be interested in the kind of shows that made me enjoy Trek in the first place, but that's second hand impression from seeing what people say online

[-] Manabi@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

All of them hold up pretty well when binging them, although I do fairly slow binges, maybe watching 3 - 4 episodes a day at most. There are episodes I dislike and I simply skip those when binging, which helps a lot. (For example DS9 is my favorite Trek but I really, really hate Vedik/Kai Wynn and skip the earlier episodes where she's being an annoying bitch. I do watch the later episodes where she's a lot more important, but I still hate her character so much. For TNG I skip all of season 1 and most of season 2.)

[-] Mzpip@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Theme song aside (I don't mind it) the opening credits are the best, most imaginative of all the treks.

[-] Teal@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It took me a few episodes to like Enterprise and now I really enjoy the series. I really wish it when t a couple of more seasons.

The theme song was off putting to me at first. Once I bonded with the cast and characters it somehow became better and now I let it play for most episodes and even sing along.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago

I think the reason people don't really like the theme song very much is because it isn't the classic instrumental. All of the other Star Treks have been very obviously Star Trek from the opening few tones. Enterprise isn't like that.

Strange New Worlds got this, even though it was a brand new piece of music just the first few notes, you can tell it's Star Trek without even looking at the screen.

[-] Teal@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I get that and felt the same way. When I played the first episode and theme played I was like what the hell is this…lol!

[-] Manabi@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Back when Enterprise was airing some fan took the opening footage and added instrumental music to it instead and it was soooooo much better. Worked wonderfully. Really wish I'd saved a copy of it, because I can't find it anymore.

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[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 points 1 year ago

Man I love that series, at least the first, Second and third seasons.

I love the idea of the show, the first enterprise as we know it, with none of the fancy tech and comfort of the other shows, the pioneering scent it has.

But they had to screw it up, the execs put their dirty hands on the show and ruined a lot of it, the first season would be on earth? Nooooo, not generic enough, There will be no transporters? Noooooo, too different, also: sexualize T'pol to the Delta quadrant and back.

And man I hate so much the time wars thing, I suspect the execs also forced it into the show, because I guess? Idk, they killed what could have been a great show.

I would even be glad for some sort of reboot of Enterprise, following a lot more of the original ideas of the show and characters, taking away all the dumb and continuing all the storyline with the Human-Romulan conflict.

[-] Magnetar@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

taking away all the dumb

Oh man, the episode where Archer basically says "Shut up, experienced scientist from centuries long space faring race with your well thought out careful procesures, I'm going down on that planet we discovered five minutes ago because I want to go camping! Also I'm bringing my dog."

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 points 1 year ago

yeah that too, archer and the Trip aren't that nice characters, but t'pol (- the sex), Hiroshi Sato and specially doctor phlox are great characters.

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